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The Penny Drops – Iridium is Dying.

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990813/news/current/irid.htx http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40492,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40407,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel -Ian. –=– Chapter 11 filed against Iridium Interest payment of...

Last Night on PBS: Koncordski vs. Concorde

Ian Andrew Bell wrote:> > FYI, I knew that’d draw Rich out of his shell. > > Josh Gardner wrote: > > > remember hearing about such a concept, and I think (maybe) that is was > > being called “XB-70” at the time. > > Yep. Oops. Nope. Thought you were...

Last Night on PBS: Koncordski vs. Concorde

FYI, I knew that’d draw Rich out of his shell. Josh Gardner wrote: > remember hearing about such a concept, and I think (maybe) that is was > being called “XB-70” at the time. Yep. > An interesting fact that I learned about the MiG-25… Alcohol...

Black Aircraft

When I was searching for data on the SST planes I actually ran into the Federation of American Scientists. In later surfing I’ve discovered that they are maintaining two REALLY cool web sites: US Black Aircraft http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/mahon/index.html...

Last Night on PBS: Koncordski vs. Concorde

More on the TU-144! Apparently NASA has been conducting some joint experiments using an old TU-144. Very interesting.. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Projects/TU-144/ See if you can spot the differences!...

Last Night on PBS: Koncordski vs. Concorde

When the Concorde was under development in France, their major rival was a Soviet-built plane called the TU-144. It was essentially a slightly better imitation of the Concorde — and was arguably Andrei Tupolev’s finest design acheivement. These supersonic...

WAP & Palm

So there’s considerable hubbub these days about WAP. Nokia seems to be pushing it and given all the bumfuzzling going on (including at Cisco) in other standards and the lack of a coherent direction, I think WAP will win. There’s also a good WAP article in...

NATO Bombing of Chinese Embassy was CIA’s Only Target

I keep thinking of Gersham’s point several weeks (months?) ago about China and their interest in Kosovo. It is plausible that the Chinese were aiding Milosevich by providing intelligence out of that embassy. If this were the case, then at least the CIA is being...

I don’t know why I’m posting this..

I once met Weird Al when I Was still DJing at Richard’s on Richards. He was definitely weird. Anyway, never being one to miss the chance to piggy- back on someone else’s marketing hype: http://www.sagabegins.com/ -Ian.